About The Bastard

The human behind The Unredacted Bastard and Lotus Purrspective is a retired American who has spent more than fifty years writing, reporting, and watching power up close.

Before yelling at the news professionally, he:

• Served in the United States Air Force, which permanently ruined his tolerance for incompetence dressed up as authority.

• Worked as a radio anchor and News Director, living inside daily deadlines and learning exactly how stories get framed — and how much gets left out.

• Spent decades as a professional writer, turning complex reality into words for audiences who don’t have time for bullshit.

• Put in time as a teacher and paralegal, which means he can both explain the civics and read the fine print.

• Went into the political trenches as a press secretary for a state senate candidate and completed a college internship at the state capitol, seeing firsthand how legislation, messaging, and backroom deals really work.

Those years left him with three things: an eye for spin, a low opinion of cults in red and blue, and a stubborn belief that ordinary people deserve clear, unvarnished explanations of what’s being done in their name.

Now retired, he channels all of that into:

• The Unredacted Bastard — uncensored, profanity‑laced analysis of American politics and media.

• Lotus Purrspective — daily claws‑out commentary from the judgmental cat who lives with him and understands humans a little too well.

If you want someone who’s been in the newsroom, the classroom, the courtroom, and the capitol — and is finally free to say what he actually thinks — you’ve found your bastard.